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  Obama's 2012 campaign focused on tech, sought advice from Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt

  By Kimber Streams on June 14, 2012 05:58 pm + 18 comments

  Bloomberg Businessweek's profile on Barack Obama's campaign manager Jim Messina focuses on the Continue reading…

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  Cory Doctorow explains ebooks, copyright, and parallel importation

  By Evan Rodgers on June 14, 2012 05:49 pm + 2 comments

  In a blog post from this morning, Cory Doctorow — a technology writer who has given a number of s Continue reading…

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  PBS 'Off Book' looks at the influence of 8-bit games on art and culture

  By Andrew Webster on June 14, 2012 10:46 am + 4 comments

  You don't need to have grown up during the golden years of the NES and Atari to understand the Continue reading…

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  'Alot was been hard': generating Amazon ebooks out of YouTube comments

  By Adi Robertson on June 13, 2012 02:15 pm + 14 comments

  The ease of generating ebooks and selling them on Amazon has led to easy scam opportunities, like Continue reading…

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  The sad story of a robot waiter named Ken-chan

  By Kimber Streams on June 12, 2012 04:32 pm + 6 comments

  Smithsonian Magazine tells the story of a robot waiter named Ken-chan, who used to serve tables at Continue reading…

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  Google Blockly: an easy, visual way to learn to code

  By Adi Robertson on June 12, 2012 04:14 pm + 30 comments

  We've discussed how to learn to code before, but Blockly combines the simplicity of a good set of Continue reading…

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  Ash Thorp on designing the UI of 'Prometheus'

  By Evan Rodgers on June 11, 2012 04:52 pm + 28 comments

  If you haven't seen Prometheus, don't worry, Inventing Interactive's interview with designer Ash Continue reading…

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  NYT: LinkedIn security breach could have been prevented with simple security measures

  By Kimber Streams on June 11, 2012 10:37 am + 20 comments

  Last week's breach at LinkedIn resulted in the leak of 6.46 million user passwords, but with some Continue reading…

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  Steve Jobs details drug use, phone hacking, and more in Department of Defense docs

  By Andrew Webster on June 11, 2012 09:18 am + 41 comments

  Earlier this year the FBI released details from a background investigation on Steve Jobs, and now W Continue reading…

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  The humble beginnings of OS X on Intel

  By Vlad Savov on June 11, 2012 04:46 am + 42 comments

  It wasn't that long ago that choosing between Mac and Windows meant a choice between processing Continue reading…